The Known Unknowns

Orion: “To many on your world it is a perplexing thing that a brother can marry his sister, and that such can go on for generation after generation without ill effect to the offspring. Here, of course, I am referring to the Adamites, and to a somewhat lesser degree to the progeny of Andon and Fonta.

“In the case of the Adamites, I note, these were truly supernatural beings, and so designed to ‘withstand’ the intermarriage of close relatives without ill effects. They could have successfully bred up to 1 million or more, and still not show (anything like) the degenerative affects your present-day species would encounter in similar circumstances.

“We consider the Andon and Fonta pair, and here we have a different set of circumstances. Firstly, these two were twins, and they were the first step into humanness, having evolved from an animal species that could successfully breed in tight clans for thousands of years. Their somewhat simple and undifferrated genetic structure allowed for this, and Andon and Fonta, by and large, inherited this structure.

“Consider for instance a pigeon pair; two eggs are laid, and soon you have a healthy new breeding pair. So you see there is great strength in the simpler creations. For humans as they evolve and diversify, becoming more complex, really, it is important that interbreeding is avoided, even outlawed. Indeed, the Nodites of old, supernatural as they were, also interbred successfully to a very large degree.

“We are the Life Carriers that were present on your world for eons of time, bending, prodding, and encouraging life on the planet to evolve into a creature that could house the presence of God, looking for, if I may re-coin this phrase, ‘known unknowns’ that would surprise us, and further assist us to produce more perfect human species on other worlds.

“This we do to so honor our Creator, to gain more advanced mind endowments from our Mother Spirit, and to in the fullness of time fuse with a Fragment of the Creator himself. I am Orion, delighted to here visit a long-time friend.”